Dave Grohl Wishes Lemmy Was Alive To Listen To New Album

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Dave Grohl has admitted that there’s a tribute to Lemmy on the New Album ‘Medicine At Midnight’, and he wishes the late rocker was alive to hear it.

Speaking to US OK! Magazine, Grohl revealed that the bands second single, ‘No Son Of Mine’, is his tribute to the Motörhead frontman. The song from the upcoming 10th album inverts the idea of a strict father raising his child to worship God and fear sin and transgression.

“I wasn’t raised with religion, I never went to church.” Dave said to The Sunday Times (Culture) “But I was sent to a Catholic school for two years as reform when I was a teenager. It was the first time I’d cracked a Bible. My religion was my record collection, I looked at those musicians as my saints and their songs as my hymns.”

Talking with OK!, Grohl revealed that ‘No Son Of Mine’ was originally written with “a country swing to it… but then we decided for something a bit more aggressive, and it turned into these chunky riffs.”

Adding “I wish Lemmy were alive to hear it, because he would see how much an influence he’s been to me.”

Grohl first met Lemmy at a LA strip club, and went onto work on his Probot Project, as well as the memorable music video for ‘White Limo’.

Speaking about Lemmy at the 2016 Grammy awards, Grohl said: “Many of us play rock ‘n’ roll but a rare few among us are rock ‘n’ roll. Lemmy was rock’n’roll. He was a rebel, an outsider, one of a kind, and a way of life. He was Motörhead. He was a legend and I was proud to call him my friend.”

In a new interview with Classic Rock, as reported by Louder, Dave reminisces on how much Motörhead meant to his band, recalling a time he went to Lemmy’s infamous LA apartment.

“I was shocked at how fucking disgusting it was,” Grohl laughs. “These aisles of magazines and VHS tapes, stacked three to four feet high, Lemmy sitting on the couch, in his black bikini underwear with a spiderweb on them, after just dyeing his hair black, doing a phone interview, with a videogame on pause on the television.”

“I will never, ever forget every little detail of that day,” affirms Dave. “Especially not the black underwear, with a spiderweb and a black widow spider right where the dick is.”

With the interview over, Lemmy did the obvious: offered Dave a belt of Jack Daniels. “It was fucking 11:15 in the morning,” recalls Grohl. “I said, ‘Sure’.”

‘No Son Of Mine’ will appear on the new album, produced by Greg Kurstin – who also worked with the band on their previous release ‘Concrete And Gold’. The new album will be 9 tracks long and will be 37 minutes in total.

This is the tracklisting for the album:

1. Making a Fire
2. Shame Shame
3. Cloudspotter
4. Waiting on a War
5. Medicine at Midnight
6. No Son of Mine
7. Holding Poison
8. Chasing Birds
9. Love Dies Young

The new album is due out on February 5th and can be pre-ordered here.

Check out the first single ‘Shame Shame’ from the album: